Old 600dpi Scans of the Anvil Artbooks by Nobuteru Yuki

I've had these on my site forever but there's a problem with one of the files and they're also not easy to flip through. So after a bunch of people asked I finally got around to just uploading them to Internet Archive. 

• Volume 1 is here.
• Volume 2 is here.
• Volume 3 is here.

They're my old scans though. There's bad bleed-through. I need to do better scans one day.


THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, Volume 1-3
Nobuteruki rough-drawings
Nobuteru Yuki, Yuuki, Nobuteru Yūki, 結城 信輝
These were self-published so there is no ISBN


They contain art for things like: Record of Lodoss War, Vaelber Saga, X by Clamp, Battle Angel Alita, Gunnm, Angel Cop, Wizardry, Escaflowne, Chinese Ghost Story, Kaiser Knuckle, Galaxy Express 999, Beauty and the Beast, Evangellion, Trigun, Street Fighter II, Samurai Spirits, Original Characters, and a bunch of things I'm probably forgetting or simply don't know.

2400dpi Scans of 2018 Zelda Concert Folders and Art

This art was done for Zelda Concert promotion and it is stunning. It features Skyward Sword Zelda, Ocarina of Time Link, and Breath of the Wild Link, all in the Breath of the Wild style.

Find the 2400dpi scans here.

Sadly the only digital versions of these that I can find are pretty small so a while ago Ikhana, the collector, was kind enough to make great scans from her own collection and send them to me. I don't always do this, but since I liked them so much, I decided I would try to get them and make even higher quality ones. I have since been able to piece the set together with more affordable auctions. 

 

600dpi Scans of Shogaku Magazine Grade 6, May 1986, Appendix

Here are the 600dpi scans of the full appendix.

Shogaku Sixth Grade Magazine
小学六年生 
Date: May 1986
This is an insert that came with the magazine
Published by Shogakukan

I need to do larger scans of the art still

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12-2400dpi Scans of "Zelda Book" Game Guide

Find the pages are at 1200dpi, and the art is at 2400dpi, here. 

Famicom Hisshohon June Issue (Volume 3) The Seperate Appendix "Zelda Book"
ファミコン必勝本 6月号 (通巻3号)
Also known as "Hippon Magazine"

This was an insert that came with the June issue.
Release Date: May 2, 1986
Publisher: JICC Publications
Magazine Code: 13395-06


Whisky Delta had it scanned before and has other great magazines on their Internet Archive page. I just wanted bhigher res versions of the art.

This is the magazine it originally came with

ファミコン必勝本 No. 003( 1986年 06月号)

2400dpi Scans of a Never Before Seen tOoT comic by Koide Taku

Here are the 2400dpi scans of the full chapter.

TRANSLATION NEEDED

This is a 33 page one-shot tOoT comic by Koide Taku from Monthly Famitsu Bros. February, 1999. Somehow I had never seen or heard about this before, I don't think it's ever been online or spoken about, which is hard to believe but seems to be true.

I can't use keywords here because it gets tagged by Art-i-fictional Intellect-a-gence as another publisher's work.

 

600dpi Archival Scans of The World of Game Creator Volume 2

Here are the 600dpi scans.

Chapter 2 is about Miyamoto, Tezuka, & Nakago creating Super Mario Bros.

The World of Game Creator Volume 2
ゲームクリエイター列伝 2 
by Takayuki Hirasawa

平沢たかゆき
April 12, 2000
ISBN 4-06-312836-9
Published by Kodansha

Published in Weekly Shonen Magazine 1999 No. 2.3, released on December 9th.

Chapters: The Men who Created:
Part 1. Gran Turismo

Part 2: Super Mario Bros.

Part 3: PlayStation

Thank you, Traveler, for helping me know this existed and for finding out which magazine it appeared in first too.

I have not done Volume 1 yet but I do have it. Just let me know if you want to know what's inside it. Since it doesn't have Zelda stuff in it it's currently on the bottom of my scanning list.

 

600-2400dpi Scans for the Original Legend of Zelda 1986 Soft Bank / BEEP Strategy Guide

Here are the 600dpi scans of the full guide, along with 2400dpi scans of the artwork.

This is a strategy guide for Zelda 1 that contains sections for both Hydlide and Dragon Quest. There is a small comic in the front that you can find translated on my website. (Same name as the account here .com) A giant thank you to Mases of Zelda Dungeon

Title: Family Computer RPG Book Vol. 2 #6: The Legend of Zelda / Hydlide Special / Dragon Quest
Comic: Senda Yoshikazu - せんだよしかす
Illustrators: Nikov / 浅井真澄 (Asai Masumi) . 長谷川泰男 (Hasegawa Yasuo) . 李良明 (Li Liangming - Yoshiming Lee)
Publisher: Soft Bank Corp
Date: May 22, 1986
ISSN 0910-7681
Code: 17660-5
Translated into English

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Ranmaru's Adventure of Link Comic, Volume 3, Part 4, Now Archivally Preserved!

Cover image made by Kannon

I had forgotten I need to post updates on Blogger and not just Bluesky.

There are 4 volumes of comics for the original Legend of Zelda (1 volume from 1986) and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (3 volumes that continue the 4 part story) by artist Ran Maru. The publisher, Wanpakku Comics, went out of business before volume 3 could be published as an actual book. The only scans we had before were actually made from Xerox copies of the original magazine comics. I've now been able to collect 6 of these last 7 chapters to make better scans. This felt like a near impossible task, and I still have one more volume to find, but I believe it should be possible.

Find the link to scans of the full volume from 1988 here. 

You can use the Ranmaru tag to find all of the translations and information I currently have, or have online. 

Scans of the Color Pages of the First Ever Zelda Manga, Hyrule Fantasy by Ran Maru

I never thought I'd even be able to see this, it's that rare. I have found, & 2400dpi scanned, the color pages of the very first issue of the very first Zelda manga ever. They're only in black & white in the collected volume. The color is spectacular.

This is the 1st chapter of the Hyrule Fantasy: The Legend of Zelda manga by Ranmaru from the June 1986 issue of Wanpakku monthly comic magazine. It has several two-color pages. They are all stunning. Find the whole volume, and a link to the English translation, here.

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I've only scanned the Zelda section but if you would like scans or photos of any of the other parts of this volume, please let me know at melorasworld@gmail.com. The table of contents is included at the end.

Scans of Laputa, Castle in the Sky, Labyrinth of Heaven Gamebook

This was scanned and donated by Сергей Посниченко, @sergeithesage on Twitter. It's not Zelda related but there are so many fans of both series in the same bubble that it feels like it fits here well enough. Raws and lightly cleaned files are at this link.

Please let us know if there is a translation of this or just go ahead and translate it! People would love to read it!

ボードゲーム ゲームブック 「天空の城ラピュタ」 天界の迷
Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Labyrinth of Heaven | Celestial Labyrinth | Lost in the Heavens
Published by: Tokuma Shoten
Collection: Animage Bunko "JuJu" | AMJuJu
Author: Daisuke Sato
Illustrator: Yuki Hisa Fujita
Original Story: Miyazaki Hayao
ISBN4-19-669572-8C0174

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Scans of Triforce of the Gods World Guidebook Strategy Guide

 

I just high-res scanned and uploaded another retro guide for The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, find the 1200-2400dpi RAW and lightly cleaned files at this link. I also added the art to the flickr gallery.

The Legend of Zelda Triforce of the Gods World Guidebook
ゼルダの伝説, 神々のトライフォース, ワールドガイドブック
ISBN4-8033-3874-4

C2055 and P1200E
Published by Taishubo Co.

Also called "Continental Shobo"

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Map Gallery and New 2400dpi Map Scans and Repairs

I needed to get someone some images for a time-sensitive project they're doing so I've been adding old strategy guide maps to the gallery for Zelda: A Link to the Past. This gallery on Flickr will also have all of the Zelda maps and "world scenes" that I've been able to get to so far. There's some pretty good ones in there already and A LOT more to come. Some of these also need to be cleaned up (like the dungeon maps for LttP) but me, and the ever wonderful and talented Olga, have gotten some of them done. Specifically the overworld. I did the 2 from this "Continental Shobo" guide, and she cleaned up the 2 big maps of the Light World and Dark World from The Zelda Handbook. What she accomplished was an utterly massive amount of work when you realize how many of the buildings and details were nearly completely covered by text and how much detail the seam in the middle needed to be fixed:

By the way, these haven't really been online before. There was one bad set of full-book scans on archive.org that is now missing but no one ever got good images online or cleaned them up. So this is very likely the first time you are seeing them. Give them a look, they're great.

Scans of The Hyrule Fantasy: The Legend of Zelda Dawn Publications Strategy Guide

I just high-res scanned and uploaded another retro guide for the original Legend of Zelda game, find the 1200-2400dpi RAW and lightly cleaned files at this link.

ISBN 4-7508-0521-1 and 9784750805214

Thank you to Mases of ZeldaDungeon.net. He has been making sure these guides are preserved by collecting them all, scanning them, and then also sending them to me for high-resolution archival scans.

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Scans of The Hyrule Fantasy: The Legend of Zelda Victory Strategy Guide

I just high-res scanned and uploaded another retro guide for the original Legend of Zelda game, find the 1200-2400dpi RAW and lightly cleaned files at this link.
 

This guide has some of my favorite enemy art done for the series.


ゼルダの伝説 必勝攻略ガイド

ISBN 4-405-06068-1 | C2055

Shinsei Publishing . Nova Publishing

Artist: Shuichi Aikawa . 相川修一


Thank you to Mases of ZeldaDungeon.net. He has been making sure these guides are preserved by collecting them all, scanning them, and then also sending them to me for high-resolution archival scans.


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Added the Scan of the Original Painting of the Fairy for Hyrule Fantasy

I finally replaced the old image of this fairy with the utterly amazing and beautiful scan we have thanks to ArtofNP, he also heads the non-profit The Interactive Art Collection:

"Established in 2021, the Interactive Art Collection is a non-profit focused on the discovery, preservation, education, and sharing of original video game art."

This is the original animation Cel painting. It's beyond impossible that this piece of art was saved and made its way to someone who was willing to scan it for all of us. I can't thank Stephan Reese enough for being willing to do things like this. He makes fans dreams come true.

Here's his photo of it in Nintendo Power next to the original:

2400dpi Scans of the 1986 Hyrule Fantasy Bandai Board Game

You can find the high resolution files here and I will be adding more of this higher-res art to the gallery at some point in the future. I just need time away from scanning to clean it all. For now all I have updated is the boss cards. 

I also cleaned up Ganon's boss room and faked a card for him, so we could have a nice little set. Also want to thank JairulNait for scanning Aquamentus, because my set is missing his card. It is at 1200dpi though so, if anyone could get it for me at 2400dpi one day, that would be awesome! (Send me the RAW, if you use the auto adjustments on the scanner sometimes it blows out the colors) melorasworld@gmail.com

Edit: If you would like to 3D print the little Link figuring, Keshi Corner has it scanned here.

2400dpi Scans of the Two-Tone Pages from the Zelda 2 Manga, Volume 1

This is the Monthly Wanpakku issue for March, 1987. I have only scanned the Zelda manga by Ran Maru but if you need info on anything else in the volume, please let me know.

I've been trying really hard to collect the color pages for these since they are incredibly beautiful works of comic art. I am so happy I was able to get this one, which is also the first chapter that starts the Adventure of Link manga after the first volume of Hyrule Fantasy (Zelda 1) manga. 

Before, because the novel is black and white, I thought the sun was just eclipsed. It's awesome to see a blood red sun or moon here. 

There is a translation for this manga if you would like to read it. You can find everything you need at this link.
 

2400dpi Scans of the the Legend of Zelda: The Dreaming Isle Japanese Game Manual

I actually only just bought this because it felt weird to have all of the other ones to scan and not the Link's Awakening one. The first 4 games are kind of my true loves, after all. Anyway, I just finished scanning and uploading this and you can find it here!

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2400dpi Scans of the the Legend of Zelda: Triforce of the Gods Japanese Game Manual

 

I just high-res scanned and uploaded the Japanese Super Famicom game manual for The Legend of Zelda: Triforce of the Gods (aka A Link to the Past.) The 2400dpi RAWs and lightly cleaned files are at this link. 

There are some cool translation comparison tables and notes at this link.

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2400dpi Scans of the the Legend of Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link Japanese Game Manual

 

I just scanned & uploaded the Japanese Famicom Zelda II Adventure of Link manual at 2400dpi. Find it here.

I'm editing the next one but if you like this then also check out this official AoL guide that's packed full of art not found anywhere else: Family Computer Magazine Special Edition: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link Winning Guide

You can also find some great translation comparison tables here.

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